| December 2025 |
| Sober Horizon |
| Newsletter of the North Central Ohio AA IntergroupHappy Holidays from your North Central Ohio AA IntergroupPhone: 419-625-5995Email: ncoaai@bex.net www.ncoa-aa.org chrisgalloway62@gmail.com s.newland80@gmail.com |
| NCOAAI BoardChairman: Ronnie G.Vice Chairman: Randy W.Treasurer: Chris S.Secretary: Sarah N.Advisory Board Members: Lisa D. Scott M. Val W. Bob T. There are open positions available that need filled. Please consider sending a Homegroup member to fill these. November 2025 Roll Call Chairperson: Ronnie G.-HereVice Chairperson: Randy W.-HereTreasurer: Chris S.-HereSecretary: Sarah N.-HereMember at Large: Val W.-AbsentMember at Large: Zach R.-HereMember at Large: Eric D.-HereMember at Large: Scott M.-HereAttendes : Tammie J. Guy T. Ryan K. Paul S. Jordan B. Cheryl C. Minutes: Sarah N. Prepared and submitted October 3, 2025. Meeting minutes accepted and approved.Treasurer Report: Chris S. submitted Monthly Financial Report and Donation Log. Accepted and Approved. Total balance as of October 31st is as follows $17659.31 Income includes Donations of $629.67 and Literature Sales of 796.00.Committee Reports:H&I: Sarah N. and Karen S. are currently going into the Huron County Jail. We are waiting on acceptance for Rani S. from the jail. There are also applications in at Erie County Detox waiting approval to take a meeting there. Calls have been made to Firelands 1 South and Erie County Jail. Anyone willing to help take meetings into the jail and or detox please reach out to Sarah Newland 419-681-2526, she has applications for them.Literature: Inventory was done on 11/8/25. Entertainment: Memorial Day Breakfast – 2025 Gratitude Dinner – 2025 is reserved at UAW Hall. New Business: Chris S. suggested that the intergroup donate to New York World Service. Bob T. disagrees with the amount that it is suggested to be donated. Currently we do not donate. Scott M. put a motion into table discussion till we find out how much is supposed to be donated. Still looking into internet changes and getting rid of Grasshopper. It is outdated and no longer needed and could save the intergroup money by getting rid of it. Gratitude Dinner still needs volunteers.Christmas and New Years Alcothon will be from As Bill Sees 10:00am to Rebos 6:00pm. It will be a potluck so please bring a dish to share. One may say that anonymity is the spiritual base, the sure key to all the rest of our Traditions. It has come to stand for prudence and, most importantly, for self-effacement. True consideration for the newcomer if he desires to be nameless; vital protection against misuse of the name Alcoholics Anonymous at the public level; and to each of us a constant reminder that principles come before personal interest– such is the wide scope of this all-embracing principle. In it we see the cornerstone of our security as a movement; at a deeper spiritual level it points us to still greater self-renunciation. A glance at the Twelve Traditions will instantly assure anyone that “giving up” is the essential idea of them all. In each Tradition, the individual or the group is asked to give up something for our general welfare. Tradition One asks us to place the common good ahead of personal desire. Tradition Two asks us to listen to God as he may speak in the group conscience. Tradition Three requires that we exclude no alcoholic from AA membership. Tradition Four implies that we abandon all ideas of centralized human authority or government. But each group is enjoined to consult widely on matters affecting us all. Tradition Five restricts the AA group to a single purpose, carrying our message to other alcoholics. Tradition Six points at the corroding influence of money, property, and personal authority; it begs that we keep these influences at a minimum by separate incorporation and management of our special services. It also warns against the natural temptation to make alliances or give endorsements. Tradition Seven states that we had best pay our own bill; that large contributions or those carrying obligations ought not be received; that public contributions or those carrying obligations ought not be received; that public solicitation using the name Alcoholics Anonymous is positively dangerous. Tradition Eight foresees professionalize our Twelfth Step work but it does guarantee our few paid service workers an unquestioned amateur status. Tradition Nine asks that we give up all ideas of expensive organization; enough is needed to permit effective democracy; our leadership is one of service and it is rotating; our few titles never clothe their holders with arbitrary personal authority; they hold authorization to serve, never to govern. Tradition Ten is an emphatic restraint of serious controversy; it implores each of us to take care against committing AA to the fires of reform, political or religious dissension. Tradition Eleven asks, in our public relations, that we be alert against sensationalism and it declares there is never needed to praise ourselves. Personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, and film is urgently required, thus avoiding the pitfall of vanity, and the temptation through broken anonymity to link AA to other causes. Tradition Twelve, in its mood of humble anonymity, plainly enough comprehends the preceding eleven. The Twelve Points of Tradition are little else than a specific application of the spirit of the Twelve Steps of recovery to our group life and to our relations with society in general. The recovery steps would make each individual AA whole and one with God; the Twelve Points of Tradition would make us one with each other and whole with the world about us. Unity is our aim. Our AA Traditions are, we trust, securely anchored in those wise precepts, charity, gratitude, and humility. Nor have we forgotten prudence. May these virtues ever stand clear before us in our mediations; may Alcoholics Anonymous serve God in happy unison for so long as he may need us. Copyright © The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., November 1948 Upcoming LeadsMonroeville Thursday Night12/4/25 – Greg M12/11/25 – Terry M12/18/25 – Ricky C12/25/25 – DiscussionFor upcoming leads to be printed for the monthContact: Sarah N @ 419-681-2526 or s.newland80@gmail.com Please give info by the 15th of the month so they can be in current Sober Horizon. H & IVolunteers needed to go into hospitals and institutions. If you are already doing so can you please contact Sarah N @ 419-681-2526. Literature Room Hours:Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday – One hour before Rebos 6 pm meeting and a half hour after.Saturdays – One hour before Vactionlands 8:00 pm meeting and a half hour after the meeting. Anniversaries:Shane M. 12/19Woody B. 12/28 |